Welsh Journals

Dol-y-Cleifion at Welshpool, a place-name which means The Meadow of the Sickmen," is situated in the Township of Gungrog Fechan, and in the neighbourhood of the field Pen-y-Groes," now the pro- perty of the Corporation of Welshpool, and recently renamed by them Erw Wen." It is said that the origin of the name Pen-y-Groes is that an ancient Plague Market Cross once stood on that spot where the plague stricken mem- bers of the leper colony at Dol-y-Cleifion went to secure food placed on the steps of the Cross for their use by the charitably minded. It is of interest to note that, in the particulars of the sale of the far-extending estates of the Jodrell family in and around Welshpool and district in November, 1772, it is stated that Maes Pen-y-Groes had recently been had in exchange of Sir Richard Corbett, who was also at that time the owner of Dol-y-Cleifion. LUNDY POOL. The Shrewsbury Journal of May I, 1795, relates that on April 26th of that year, Mr. T. Maddox, plumber, of Welch Pool, was drowned in the stream leading from the Sandy (?) Pool (near to the town) in attempting to gather some large shells, with which the place abounds." This, in all probability, was intended for Llyndu, otherwise Lundy Pool. ROADS IN XIX CENTURY From Smiles' Life of Telford," page 253: As an illustration of the s^ate of the roads in Wales in 1803, we may state when Lord Sudeley took his bride home from the neighbourhood of Welchpool to his residence only thirteen miles distant, the carriage, in which the newly married pair rode, stuck in a quagmire, and the occupants, having extricated themselves from their perilous position, performed the rest of the journey on foot." MONTGOMERYSHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. The Shrewsbury Journal of the period relates that at a meeting of the Montgomeryshire Magistrates at the Quarter Sessions held at Welchpool on October 8th, 1795, the Lord Viscount Hereford being Chairman, a resolution proposed by his lordship for establishing a County Agricultural Society was unanimously approved. This is supposed to have been the earliest effort made for an organisation to improve agriculture in Montgomeryshire, but it is doubtful if anything came